Using Universal Printing in a Batch Environment

If you are using the SAS windowing environment, you can issue the DMPRINT command in many windows, including the Log, Output, and Program Editor windows, to send window contents to the Universal Printing default printer. You can also use the FILENAME statement to associate a fileref with the default printer, using the device type UPRINTER:

filename myuprt uprinter;

Once a fileref is associated with a printer, you can use that fileref in a PROC PRINTTO statement to print the log or procedure output. For example, the following statement directs any subsequent output to the default UPRINTER:

proc printto log=myuprt print=myuprt; run;

The fileref can also be used in other SAS statements that accept filerefs or in any window command or field that accepts filerefs.

Use the PRINTERPATH= SAS option to specify the destination printer for SAS print jobs.

PRINTERPATH=('printer-name'
fileref)

The font that is included in the definition of the current default printer is the font used to generate output, unless you override it with the SYSPRINTFONT= system option. SYSPRINTFONT= sets the font to use when printing to the current printer or to the printer identified with the optional keywords NAMED or ALL. You can specify SYSPRINTFONT= in your configuration file, at SAS invocation, or in an OPTIONS statement.

The syntax is as follows:

For more information, see Changing the Default Font.

Printer definitions can be created in batch mode for an individual or for all SAS users at your site using PROC PRTDEF. The system administrator can create printer definitions in the registry and make these printers available to all SAS users at your site by using PROC PRTDEF with the SASHELP option. You can create printer definitions for yourself by using PROC PRTDEF. Printer definitions that you create with PROC PRTDEF, and without the SASHELP option, are stored in the SASUSER registry. The complete syntax of the PROC PRTDEF statement is as follows:

The following sections contain information about the printer definition variables in the input data set specified by DATA=.

The following SAS program provides an example of how to use PROC PRTDEF in the z/OS operating environment to set up Universal Printing printer definitions.

The following example shows you how to set up various printers. The INPUT statement contains the names of the four required variables. Each data line contains the information that is needed to produce a single printer definition. The DATA= option on the PROC PRTDEF specifies PRINTERS as the input data set that contains the printer attributes. PROC PRTDEF creates the printer definitions for the SAS registry.

data printers;
  dest = " ";
  device = "PRINTER";

  input @1 name $14. @16 model $18. @35 hostopt $24.; 
datalines;
Myprinter             PostScript Level 1   SYSOUT=T  DEST=printer1
Laserjet              PCL 5 Printer        SYSOUT=T  DEST=printer5
Color LaserJet        PostScript Level 2   SYSOUT=T  DEST=printer2
;

proc prtdef data=printers; 
run;

The following SAS program provides an example of how to use PROC PRTDEF in the z/OS operating environment to set up a Universal Printing printer definition that generates an e-mail message with a PostScript attachment.

data printers;
   name='email';
   protocol = 'None';
   model = 'PostScript Level 2 (color)';
   device = 'email';
   dest = 'John.Doe@sas.com';
   hostopt = "recfm=vb Subject='Weekly Report'
      ct='application/PostScript' "; 
   run;
proc prtdef data=printers replace list; run;

The following tables contain information about the required and optional variables that you need to use to create different types of outputs. Use these option values when you define variables for printing to a Universal Printer in a specific operating environment.